Personne : François-André Danican Philidor

Titre Date Rôle
Sancho Pança dans son île 1762-07-08 compositeur
Le Maréchal-ferrant 1761-08-22 compositeur
Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège 1767-11-24 compositeur
Le Sorcier 1764-01-02 compositeur
Blaise le savetier XVIIIe siècle compositeur
Le Soldat magicien 1760-08-14 compositeur
Tom Jones 1765-02-27 compositeur
L’Amant déguisé 1769-09-02 compositeur
La Belle esclave 1787-09-18 compositeur
Le Jardinier de Sidon 1768-07-18 compositeur
Le Diable à quatre 1756-08-19 compositeur
Le Quiproquo 1760-03-06 compositeur
Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège 1773-12-11 compositeur
Le Bûcheron 1763-02-28 compositeur
Berthe 1775-01-18 compositeur
L’Huître et les plaideurs 1759-09-17 compositeur
La Rosière de Salency 1769-10-25 compositeur
Persée 1780-10-24 compositeur
Thémistocle 1785-10-13 compositeur
Le Jardinier et son seigneur 1761-02-18 compositeur
Le Bon fils 1773-01-11 compositeur
Les Femmes vengées 1775 compositeur
Les Fêtes de la paix 1763-07-04 compositeur
Le Mari comme il les faudrait tous 1788-11-12 compositeur
Bélisaire 1795 compositeur
L’Amitié au village 1785-10-18 compositeur
Sémire et Mélide 1773-09-27 compositeur
Le Tonnelier 1761-09-28 compositeur

Performance Rôle Troupe Date
La Nouvelle école des femmes (1770-01-22) compositeur 1770-01-22

  • Sujet
    Objet Fils cadet de André Danican Philidor, compositeur léger, collabora avec Favart, Sedaine, Anseaume, Quétant (Le Maréchal ferrant), mais surtout avec Poinsinet.
    Utilisateur MM
  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet Julian RUSHTON: 'François-André Danican Philidor', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "François-André Danican Philidor (b Dreux, 7 Sept 1726; d London, 31 Aug 1795). Composer, youngest son of André Danican Philidor l’aîné, and half-brother of Anne Danican Philidor.
    As a page-boy in the royal chapel at Versailles, he received a good musical education with André Campra, the maître de chapelle; he also learnt the favourite pastime of the musicians, chess. In 1738 he had a motet performed and favourably received in the chapel, and though he left Versailles for Paris in 1740, his works continued to be performed there. Another motet was heard at the Concert Spirituel in 1743.
    From 1740 Philidor lived in Paris, performing, teaching and, in the family tradition, copying music. […] His skill at chess marked him out earlier than his musical gifts. […] He met, studied with and defeated France’s leading player, Légal. In 1745 he left Paris on a concert tour of the Netherlands with Geminiani and Lanza; when Lanza’s daughter died, however, the tour was cancelled and Philidor, stranded, supported himself by chess. Some British officers helped him to travel to London, thus beginning his lifelong connection with England. He established himself as the strongest player of central and northern Europe (though he never played the leading Italian masters), and particularly impressed by simultaneous blindfold play. […] Philidor remained in England until 1754, returning in 1771 and 1773, then annually for a season from 1775 until 1792, giving lectures and demonstrations subscribed by the St James Club […]
    Philidor’s return to Paris in 1754 was encouraged by friends such as Diderot, but his efforts to establish himself as a composer met with mixed fortunes. A trial motet, Lauda Jerusalem, for a post at Versailles was deemed too Italian […]
    […] he began his successful career as a theatre composer in 1756. His italianate style, rejected by Rebel (the director of the Opéra) as unsuitable for that institution, was no obstacle in opéra comique, and from 1759 to 1765 Philidor produced 11 opéras comiques of which eight were decidedly successful; after Le sorcier (1764) he became the first composer to be called on the stage at the Comédie-Italienne. […]
    At the outbreak of war between England and France, Philidor was in London, and was unjustly put on the list of émigrés. He died, separated from his family, at 10 Little Ryder Street, and was buried from St James’s, Piccadilly; the exact location of his grave is not known."
    Utilisateur AS